ASUS, like many other graphics card manufacturers, has collaborated throughout its history with various manufacturers of cooling devices. Experience and design technology may not always be enough to claim the crown of performance or design, so maybe that’s why ASUS has partnered up with water block maker RK etc.
ASUS graphics in collaboration with Noctua are a reality
This model which you can see indicated in the capture of the registration report in the EEC has the name RTX3070-8G-NOCTUA, and suggests that obviously ASUS is working with the Austrian manufacturer Noctua on a model of RTX 3070 personalized. It is not known if this will be the only graphics card developed by the two brands or if it will be an air-cooled or water-cooled graphics card … we do not even know if it will be a brown and beige graphics card, the characteristic colors of Noctua.
In this news article, you can see two examples of what these graphics cards would look like (one is a 3D render while the other is a mod), but that would probably be what most hardware enthusiasts would look like. will think when they find out that ASUS and Noctua are collaborating on the design of a GPU.
In any case, the association of ASUS and Noctua seems to be the subject of rumors since the end of last month; in fact, a foreign media outlet that heard of these rumors contacted both ASUS and Noctua to confirm this, and in both cases the manufacturers have neither confirmed nor denied this association, although it is true that one of the answers we got did, which seems to suggest that Noctua-themed graphics cards are in development.
A Premium heat sink for a Premium GPU
ASUS is one of the most recognized manufacturers in the field of graphics cards, and in fact its cooling solutions can almost always claim to be the best. However, when you want to win the performance crown, there are times when your technology is just not enough to get the result you want, and you have to look to third parties who have more experience than you.
ASUS not only manufactures graphics cards, but also motherboards, cases, power supplies, gaming peripherals, monitors and much more, and as they say “that covers a lot does little compression” while Noctua is a manufacturer dedicated exclusively to refrigeration products. (and in fact, as we have mentioned several times, their products are considered the Rolls Royce of refrigeration both for performance and (above all) for quality), so without a doubt this association cannot help us bring a product of Premium category.
For the moment everything is in the air because the only confirmation of these rumors which have been flying since the end of last month is this registration with the ECC, but it is also a confirmation that the association is real and that they have already a product in production (the mentioned RTX 3070). We will see what will happen at the end, we just have to wait.
